Package-carrier.



i w. s. GILMORE.

' PACKAGE CARRIER.

(Applicatioq 5101? Feb. 19, 1902.)

(No Model.)

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WITNESSES: I 'INVENTOR 7% MW, M' 'W UNITED STAT-ES PATENT, OFFICE.

WVINFIELD S. GILMORE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PACKAGE-CARRIER.-

srnerrrcarron forming part of Letters Patent no. 700,323, aateaivia' f2fo,- 1902. Application filed February 19, 1902.' Serial lilo. 94,736. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern..- Be it known that I,WINF1ELD S. GILMORE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Package-Carriers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a-package-carrier adapted to carry papers and packages of various kinds. Suchj package carrier is designed more particularly to be used in connection with any one of the well-known parcel carrying systems such as l are used in stores or oiiicesybutit is especially designed for-use in connection with'a pneumatic-despatch-tube system. In some of the pneumatic-tube systems the tubeslead from individual stations to a central or distributing station. Packages sent from one individual station to another individual station are inclosed in the carrier and sent to the main station, where they are received and transferred to the tube leading to the desired destination.

The present invention seeks more particularly to provide convenient, reliable, and inexpensive means for clearly indicating the destination of the carrier, whereby the speedy arrival of the carrier at its proper destination may be insured.

This invention consists of the construction hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, and in which like reference-numerals designate corresponding parts, Figure 1 is a central sectional elevation on the line 1 1 of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is an end elevation looking in thedirection of the arrow in Fig. 1. I 4

Referring now more particularly to the details of the invention, especially as illustrated in thedrawings, 1 isa container in the form of a cylindrical tube having the closed end 2 and having at the opposite end a closure 3. This closure consists of-theplate 4, secured to the container by the hinge 5 and provided witha handle 6 for opening and closing the same. The handle 6 consists of a bar, preferably made of wood and clamped in place by the bolt 7, which passesthrough the plate 4 and the handle.

8 is a lug by means of which the closure is latched in closed position. The closure 3 carries an adjustable station indicator by means 'of which the destination of a carrier may be known. In this indicator thereis a plate having .a series of st'ation characters:

marked thereon and an apertured disk fixed V over- 'said plate, said plate and disk being relatively adj ustable, so'as to'display through the aperture of the latter any character on the former. the invention this indicator consists of a series ofstation characters marked in a circle on the'outer face of the plate4 and a disk 9, adapted and designed to display any one of such "station characters, as may-be desired.

As shown in Fig. 2, these station characters In the present embodiment are numerals. of the invention the disk 9 is provided with an "aperture 10 near its margin and is capable ofrotating on the plate 4, so as to display through the aperture lOa'nyi one of the station numerals desired. The bolt 7 passes through the disk 9 and clamps this disk between the handle 6 and the plate 4. When the handle 6 is'turned, theidisk 9 rotates. .With-it.

Thus the handle is common to the Inthe present-embodiment of closure and the indicator." The disk 9 is provided with a notch 11, 'whichin thepresent form is in the same radial line as the aperture 10. :When the closure is moved from a closed position to open positio n, or vice versa, the lug 8 passes through theflnotchdl. When the closure has been movediinto closed position, as'shown in Fig. 1, an'd'the disk 9 has beenturned to display any oneof the station characters desired, the notch 11 then'moves out of registerwiththelug 8, and the closure is thus latched in closed position, but permitting the indicator to be adjusted so as to display any station character desired. In the present embodiment of the invention the disk 9 is slightly larger in diameter than the plate 4, so that when the closure is in closed position the plate 4 fits within the container and the disk 9 fits against the end of the wall of the container. This is shown in the drawings.

occur to any one skilled in the art may be made without departing from the scope of the invention.

13 and 14 are two bands of sheeps wool, encircling the container at its end to constitute packing-rings.

The numeral 15 on the face of the disk 9 indicates the home station of the carrier and enables the carrier to be promptly returned to its home station when its errand has been performed. Each of the various carriers in use is thus marked with a numeral or character to indicate its own home station.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-' 1. In a package-carrier the combination of a container; a hinged closure therefor at one end; a station-indicator carried by said closure and consisting of a plate having station characters thereon, and an apertured disk rotatably mounted on said plate; and means for locking the closure by the rotation of said disk.

2. In a package-carrier the combination of a container; a hinged closure therefor at one end; a station-indicator carried by said closure and consisting of a plate having station characters thereon, and an apertured disk rotatably mounted on said plate; means for locking the closure by the rotation of said disk; and a common handle for the closure and for the indicator.

3. In a package-carrier the combination of a cylindrical container; a circular hinged closure therefor at one end; a station-indicator carried by said closure, said indicator consisting of a series of station characters marked on said closure, and an apertured circular disk rotatably mounted on the closure so as to expose any given station character through its aperture, and having a notch in its periphery; an inwardly-projecting lug on the container at its closure end and designed to pass through the notch in said disk when the closure is moved into closed position and, when the said disk is thereafter rotated, to hold the closure in closed position.

t. In a package-carrier the combination of a cylindrical container; a circular hinged closure therefor at one end and arranged to fit within the end of said container; a stationindicator carried by said closure, said indicator consisting of a series of station characters marked on said closure, and an apertured circular disk rotatably mounted on the closure so as to expose any given station character through its aperture, said disk being slightly larger in diameter than the closure, and having a notch in its periphery; an inwardlyprojecting lug on the container at its closure end and designed to pass through the notch in said disk when the closure is moved into closed position and, when the said disk is thereafter rotated, to ,hold the closure in closed position.

5. In a package-carrier the combination of a cylindrical container; a circular hinged closure therefor at one end; a station-indicator carried by said closure, said indicator consistin g of a series of station characters marked on said closure, and an apertured circular disk rotatably mounted on the closure so as to expose any given station character through its aperture, and having a notch in its periphery; an inwardly-projecting lug on the container at its closure end and designed to pass through the notch in said disk when the closure is moved into closed position and, when the said disk is thereafter rotated, to hold the closure in closed position; and a common handle for the closure and for the indicator.

6. In a package-carrier the combination of the cylindrical container 1; a hinged closureplate 4 having station characters thereon; an apertured disk 9 having a notch 11; a lug S; a handle 6 and bolt 7, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

. WINFIELD S. GILMORE.

Witnesses:

E. F. PORTER, NICHOLAS M. GOODLETT, Jr. 

